Category Archives: Software

Audioware applications and programs

Spek ~ Acoustic Spectrum Analyzer

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Spek (IPA: /spɛk/, ‘bacon’ in Dutch) helps to analyse your audio files by showing their spectrogram. Spek is free software available for Unix, Windows and Mac OS X.

Features:

  • Supports all popular lossy and lossless audio file formats thanks to the FFmpeg libraries.
  • Ultra-fast signal processing, uses multiple threads to further speed up the analysis.
  • Shows the codec name and the audio signal parameters.
  • Allows to save the spectrogram as an image file.
  • Drag-and-drop support; associates with common audio file formats.
  • Auto-fitting time, frequency and spectral density rulers.
  • Adjustable spectral density range.
  • Translated into 19 languages.
spek

spek.cc
github.com/alexkay/spek

References:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectrum_analyzer

VBAN ~ The Audio Network

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VBAN, The VB-Audio Network Protocol:

VBAN Protocol has been designed for real-time transport of digital audio stream in IP-based network environments. VBAN allows to send or / and receive audio to / from other computers of any local networks. Voicemeeter already allows easy way to manage several incoming / outgoing streams.

For Any Local Network Infrastructure:

Based on UDP Protocol, VBAN is made for Audio Pro and Audiophiles, to transport multichannel audio in native PCM format (all sampling rate supported). Developed like a “RADIO” transmitter / receptor system, the sender is always master and the receiver is always slave.

https://www.vb-audio.com/Voicemeeter/vban.htm

foo_beefweb ~ Foobar Web Browser Remote

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Web interface plugin for DeaDBeeF and Foobar2000 music players.

Features:

  • Lightweight web user interface
  • Playback control
  • Playlist management
  • Music directory browser
  • Real-time UI updates
  • Mobile-friendly responsive design
  • REST-like API for controlling player from your application

foo_beefweb

foobar2000.org/components/view/foo_beefweb
github.com/hyperblast/beefweb
hydrogenaud.io/index.php?topic=116490.0
How to install a foobar component

JSound ~ Multiplatform Audio Player

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Best level of equalization sound, convert to your audio format, listen to web radio, show music representations with spectrum and VU meters. Set equalization in played music, apply effects. Feel the difference and change your music listening experience.

Features:

  • Play many formats
  • Stream Web Radio
  • Equalizer 31 bands (Left and Right)
  • Find and download music
  • Sound Effects
  • Audio Converter
  • Spectrum Analyzer
  • VU Meter
  • Preamp
  • Tag Editor
  • Cover-Art
  • Lyrics in real time
  • More accurate equalizer
  • Equalizer Smooth control
  • Music downloads more efficient
  • Spectrum now in gradient or one color
  • New engine for lyrics
  • New engine for covers
  • Cut Music (wav editor)
  • CD Ripper
  • Automatic Update
  • Music Statistics

jsound

www.youtube.com/user/JSoundPlayer
sourceforge.net/projects/jortegasound

Jniz ~ Compose With Harmonies

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Jniz is a free proprietary piece of software designed for musicians as a support tool to the musical composition. It allows you to build and to harmonize several voices according to the rules of classical harmony.

To be convinced of the limitations observed and of the work done by the great classical masters such as Bach, Mozart or Beethoven, please refer to Wikipedia, the Walter Piston Harmony book or the Schonberg theory.

The perfect knowledge and the good practice of these rules are not required but you will undoubtedly save time and it will help you greatly in using and understanding the mechanism of Jniz.

  • interface of musical notation which allows you to create, edit, save a score
  • number of voices up to 16 (256 with layers).
  • possibility to change of Key at any time.
  • Jnz, MusicXml, LillyPond, Midi, PDF export.
  • listen to the available Midi ports.
  • scale
  • redo / undo
  • Non harmonic tones (appoggiatura, echappee, suspension, passing, pedal, cambiata, anticipation)
  • Minor melodic keys
  • Chords notation recognition
  • harmonic correction of your work following the set of predefined rules
  • to give one or several solutions in case of fault if one or more rules are circumvented (Solver module).
  • Empty staves filled up by Solver (Auto Harmonizing)
  • Keys / modulations simulation tool
  • Cadences
  • Solvers serialization
  • multi-cores support
  • Input with Midi keyboards or microphones / input lines
  • Audio / sound to midi converter (monophonic)
  • Windows, Linux, OS X compatible (32/64 bits)
  • multi-languages support
jniz

www.jniz.org

SoundSwitch ~ Multilanguage Windows Utility

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SoundSwitch offers you the opportunity to switch your playback devices and/or recording devices using simple hotkeys.

No more navigating through several menus and screens. Just configure SoundSwitch once – and you are able to switch between your devices as fast as never before!

soundswitch

soundswitch.aaflalo.me
github.com/Belphemur/SoundSwitch

Kabuu ~ Audio Converter & Extractor

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Kabuu Audio Converter is a multithreaded audio converter and extractor. It can convert any file to mp3, m4a, flac, alac, wav, ogg, opus. You can also extract audio from video files like mp4, avi, vob, mkv, webm, etc.

Kabuu Audio Converter has several built in presets which make encoding even easier. You can also create your own presets, adjust encoding parameters like bitrate, channel count, sampling rate, bit depth, compression ratio.

Kabuu Audio Converter can extract audio streams from video files. Even if the video file in question has more than one audio stream, Kabuu Audio Converter gives you the option to select the one you want to extract. If your audio tracks have language information, you can configure Kabuu Audio Converter so it can select the language you want for you.

kabuu interface

kabuusoft.com/product/detail/2/kabuu-audio-converter
www.fosshub.com/Kabuu-Audio-Converter
sourceforge.net/projects/kabuuaudioconverter

Vermilion Desktop Composer ~ Cross Platform Editor

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A unique desktop music composing application for PC / Mac / Linux / Android with a tracker style interface and a simple modular Java plugin based design allowing rapid improvement and endless expansion.

Vermilion Desktop Composer

sourceforge.net/projects/buzz-like

XR3Player ~ Advanced JavaFX Music Player

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Powerful music player, multiple libraries, online music & visualizers.

  • Supports almost all audio formats through smart conversion to .mp3
  • Amazing audio spectrum visualizers
  • Audio amplitudes waveform
  • Chromium web browser
  • Full Dropbox access
  • Multiple user accounts
  • Configurable via multiple settings
  • Advanced tag editor
  • File organizer and explorer
  • Multiple libraries / playlists support
  • System monitor (CPU, RAM)
  • Audio effects and filters

github.com/goxr3plus/XR3Player

LASTAR ~ Batch File Splitting & Normalization

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LASTAR is a batch (non-interactive) audio processor for loudness adjustment and file splitting of a batch of audio recordings, using an audio transparent maximizer.

At the opposite of usual available software, loudness normalization is done on signal power, which leads to a louder and more homogeneous result than the usual “peak” normalization, in particular on live recordings.

Its purpose is:

  • to split, equalize and normalize digitized analog tapes or vinyl
  • to split, equalize and normalize live recordings from microphones (ex ZOOM H2 recordings)
  • fast and homogeneous normalization of a group of files (compilation for instance)
  • loudness and dynamic reduction for listening in a noisy environment (car…)
  • and so on…

This software aims to be very fast and easy to use : the most efficient computing techniques have been implemented, and there are very few parameters to set (most of them are automatically adjusted by analyzing the file).

It embeds:

  • an automatic RMS normalizer,
  • an Automatic Gain Controller (compressor)
  • a 10 bands automatic equalizer
  • a 3 bands semi-parametric equalizer
  • a file splitter
  • a noise gate
  • preset management
  • a preview function.

www.arthelion.com/index.php/en/windows-en/lastar
sourceforge.net/projects/lastar

Stealth Player ~ No Distracting Interface

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Stealth Player is a Windows music player without a GUI. You control it using global hotkeys. Stealth Player understands a lot of popular stream and tracker music formats. It also supports internet radio and playlists.

sourceforge.net/projects/stealthplayer

IDTE ~ ID3 Tag Editor & Player

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IDTE is a full featured tag editor for Windows which supports tagging of FLAC, APE, ID3V1.x/2.x, WMA, LYRICS, and VORBIS tags in audio files.

It also supports the playback of 40+ various lossy and lossless music formats such as FLAC, ALAC, OGG, APE, MP3 etc.

It can rename files based on the tag information, export tag information, create playlists, search for incomplete tags on Internet, fetch lyrics, fetch cover art, supports CUE sheets, can process multiple files at same time, allows for batch file processing, supports SFX, visualizations and more…

sourceforge.net/projects/idteid3tagedito